United States Secretaries of the Navy

Charles Joseph Bonaparte (June 9, 1851 – June 28, 1921) was an American lawyer and political activist for progressive and liberal causes.

Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia.

James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense.

John Davis Long (October 27, 1838 – August 28, 1915) was an American lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts.

Robert Bernard Anderson (June 4, 1910 – August 14, 1989) was an American administrator and businessman.

Robert Smith (November 3, 1757 – November 26, 1842) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811.

Paul Morton (May 22, 1857 – February 19, 1911) was a U.

Hilary Abner Herbert (March 12, 1834 – March 6, 1919) was Secretary of the Navy in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland.

John Pendleton Kennedy (October 25, 1795 – August 18, 1870) was an American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852 to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.

Levi Woodbury (December 22, 1789 – September 4, 1851) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a U.

John Lester Hubbard Chafee (/ˈtʃeɪfiː/ CHAY-fee; October 22, 1922 – October 24, 1999) was an American politician.

Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr.

John Bowden Connally, Jr.

James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr.

Francis Patrick Matthews (March 15, 1887 – October 18, 1952) served as the 8th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus from 1939 to 1945, the 49th United States Secretary of the Navy from 1949 to 1951, and the 8th United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1951 to 1952.

John Young Mason (April 18, 1799 – October 3, 1859) was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.

Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 – December 18, 1843) was a United States Secretary of the Navy from 1819 to 1823, and a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 until his death in 1843.

Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862 – July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia.

William Alexander Graham (September 5, 1804 – August 11, 1875) was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, a Senator later in the Confederate States Senate from 1864 to 1865, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and U.

Paul Burgess Fay Jr.

William Ballard Preston (November 25, 1805 – November 16, 1862) was a United States political figure.

Henry Lawrence Garrett, III (born June 24, 1939) served as the 68th Secretary of the Navy from May 15, 1989 to June 26, 1992 in the administration of George H.

Richard Jeffrey Danzig (born September 8, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton.

Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover and a well-known yachtsman.

John William Middendorf II (born September 22, 1924) is a former Republican United States diplomat and Secretary of the Navy.

Donald Charles Winter (born June 15, 1948) is an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of the Navy.

Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was given after supporting Lincoln in the 1860 election.

Gordon Richard England (born September 15, 1937) is an American businessman who served as the U.

Josephus Daniels (May 18, 1862 – January 15, 1948) was a progressive Democrat, and newspaper editor and publisher from North Carolina who was appointed by United States President Woodrow Wilson to serve as Secretary of the Navy during World War I.

Edward Hidalgo (born Eduardo Hidalgo; October 12, 1912 – January 21, 1995) served as the United States Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration from October 24, 1979 to January 20, 1981.

John Howard Dalton (born December 13, 1941) is a U.

Paul Hamilton (October 16, 1762 – June 30, 1816) was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy, from 1809 to 1813.

Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was a high-ranking United States government official who helped shape Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.

Paul Robert Ignatius (born November 11, 1920) is an American government official who served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and was the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Lyndon Johnson administration.

John Lawrence Sullivan (June 16, 1899 – August 8, 1982) was Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) 1946-47 and the first Department of Defense Secretary of the Navy in the Truman Administration 1947-49.

Charles Sparks Thomas (September 28, 1897 – October 17, 1983) was a U.

Adolph Edward Borie (November 25, 1809 – February 5, 1880) was a United States merchant and politician who briefly served (1869) as Secretary of the Navy in the Ulysses S.

Richard Wigginton Thompson (June 9, 1809 – February 9, 1900) was an American politician.

James Kirke Paulding (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy.

David Henshaw (April 2, 1791 – November 11, 1852) was the 14th United States Secretary of the Navy.

William Henry Hunt (June 12, 1823 – February 27, 1884) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President James Garfield and briefly under President Chester A.

James Cochran Dobbin (January 17, 1814 – August 4, 1857) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857.

George Maxwell Robeson (March 16, 1829 – September 27, 1897) was an American Republican Party politician, lawyer from New Jersey, Union army general during the American Civil War, Secretary of the Navy appointed by President Ulysses S.

Victor Howard Metcalf (October 10, 1853 – February 20, 1936) was an American politician; he served in President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet an Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and then as Secretary of the Navy.

Frederick Herman Korth (September 9, 1909 – September 14, 1998) served as Secretary of the Navy during 1962-63; he was also Assistant Secretary of the Army in 1952-53.

Curtis Dwight Wilbur (May 10, 1867 – September 8, 1954) was an American lawyer and official.

George von Lengerke Meyer (June 24, 1858 – March 9, 1918) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as United States ambassador to Italy and Russia, as United States Postmaster General from 1907 to 1909 during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1909 to 1913 during the administration of President William Howard Taft.

George Edmund Badger (April 17, 1795 – May 11, 1866) was a Whig U.

William Jones (1760 – September 6, 1831) was an American politician.

Nathan Goff Jr. (February 9, 1843 – April 24, 1920) was a member of the United States Congress from West Virginia.

William Eaton Chandler (December 28, 1835 – November 30, 1917) was a lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy and as a U.

Truman Handy Newberry (November 5, 1864 – October 3, 1945) was a U.

William Birrell Franke (April 15, 1894 – June 30, 1979) was United States Secretary of the Navy from 1959 to 1961 under Dwight D.

Thomas Walker Gilmer (April 6, 1802 – February 28, 1844) was an American statesman.

Benjamin Franklin Tracy (April 26, 1830 – August 6, 1915) was a United States political figure who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1889 through 1893, during the administration of U.

Benjamin Stoddert (1744 – December 18, 1813) was the first United States Secretary of the Navy from May 1, 1798 to March 31, 1801.

Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (December 27, 1772 – February 3, 1851) served as the United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe.

Mahlon Dickerson (April 17, 1770 – October 5, 1853) was an American judge and politician.

John Branch, Jr. (November 4, 1782 – January 3, 1863) was an American politician who served as U.

Samuel Lewis Southard (June 9, 1787 – June 26, 1842) was a prominent U.

Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969) was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.

Isaac Toucey (November 15, 1792 – July 30, 1869) was an American politician who served as a U.

Edwin Denby (February 18, 1870 – February 8, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G.

William Graham Claytor Jr.

Sean Charles O'Keefe (born January 27, 1956) is the former chairman of Airbus Group, Inc.

William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 – February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier and founder of the prominent Whitney family.

William L. Ball III (born June 10, 1948) is an American former government official and political appointee.

John Francis Lehman, Jr.

Raymond Edwin "Ray" Mabus, Jr.

Hansford Tillman (HT) Johnson (born January 3, 1936) is a retired four-star general in the U.